Nervana Systems: 'Lettuce' Help You with Deep Learning Projects - The New Stack

Startup Blue River Technology is building agricultural robots that allow farmers to assess their crops plant by plant, aided by the deep learning technology from Nervana Systems. Nervana, in effect, is an AI-as-a-service company aimed at expanding deep learning beyond a few big companies and research institutions with the deep pockets and expertise to use it. Nervana recently launched a cloud service to offer developers and data scientists the tools and infrastructure to make machine intelligence dramatically faster, easier and more scalable. Blue River's robots are used in the field for tasks such as thinning lettuce. It had developed a 3-D system for phenotyping corn plants that became flummoxed by things like weeds.